Title
3D Stacked DRAM Refresh Management with Guaranteed Data Reliability
Abstract
The three-dimensional (3D) integrated dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) structure with a processor is being widely studied due to advantages, such as a large band-width and data communication power reduction. In these structures, the massive heat generation of the processor results in a high operating temperature and a high refresh rate of the DRAM. Thus, in the 3D DRAM over processor architecture, temperature-aware refresh management is necessary. However, temperature determination is difficult, because in the 3D DRAM, the temperature changes dynamically and temperature variation in a DRAM die is complicated. In this paper, a thermal guard-band set-up method for the 3D stacked DRAM is proposed. It considers the latency of the temperature data and the position difference between the temperature sensor and the DRAM cell. With this method, the data reliability of the on-chip temperature sensor dependent adaptive refresh control is guaranteed. In addition, an efficient temperature sensor built-in and refresh control method is analyzed. The expected refresh power reduction is examined through a simulation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TCAD.2015.2413411
Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
DRAM refresh,Data reliability,Terms—3D integration
Dram,Operating temperature,Latency (engineering),Computer science,Electronic engineering,Refresh rate,Real-time computing,CAS latency,Memory rank,Microarchitecture,Embedded system,Memory refresh
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
0278-0070
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaeil Lim1103.69
Hyunyul Lim2204.46
Sungho Kang343678.44